Daily Variety

My Friday- St. Patrick's Day
Wake up at 6:20am. Hmmmmm . . I really could get some more shut-eye, but little boy is sick, and thus wakes up earlier than usual. So, to get some precious time to myself to think about the day and maybe accomplish a thing or two, I get up.

I make some tea, check my email, read a few Bible verses. I get about 20 minutes, and then little boy is up. His first words of the day are ususally "good morning", or something like that, but today I hear "My ear hurts!" and his lower lip is protruding in a very sad way. Ok, maybe a call to the pediatrician is in order - he has been sick for 7 days now - so an ear infection wouldn't be out of the question. It's almost 7am, so I have two hours before the Dr.'s office takes calls.

The next two hours are a mixed bag of household chores: emptying the dishwasher ( I'm thrilled that I remembered to run in the night before!!) - making beds, putting away shoes, running a load of laundry, blah, blah, blah. Along with the chores I read a few blogs, look at my daily 'to-do' list from yesterday and transfer what didn't happen yesterday to today's list, get a call from our handyman/fix-it guy that he'll be by at 10-ish to finish a few small jobs and make a grocery list since I am in charge of a few food items for my sister's bridal shower on Saturday. (which is actually today)

I must add here that for whatever reason, this week I have now been to the grocery store 3 times, and the trip I'll have to make today will make it 4. Four grocery trips in the span of 6 days?!! I think I should be planning a little better. And the main food item I'm in charge of for the shower is Sangria. You see, it's a "Girl's Night Out" bridal shower, so the 'signature drink' for the evening is the Sangria - that I am in charge of making. (I should add here, I really don't drink at all, but this is the job I have, and Sangria involves chopping alot of fruit, so it's more like a food recipe.) I decide to use a Martha Stewart Recipe from the Aug. 03 issue. Yes, I have that issue, because I keep all of my MSLiving magazines since I started recieving the subsricption, oh like, 10 years ago. I'm not a collector of anything really at all - but for some reason I have saved every single one of these magazines. And I use them like little encyclopedia's for home-making, recipies, ideas, etc. Another one of my favorite issues is the May '98 which has a great article on organizing a garage. I used it to help with the garage organization of our previous house.

Another thing - our house is now on the market. So, along with the everyday tasks, I am now trying to keep the house as clean as possible in case it needs to be 'shown' to anyone.

Ok, back to my day: 9am rolls around and I call for the Dr.'s appt. All she has left is 3:30pm - I'll take it! However, the rest of the day, I question whether or not I should take him in. Is he really that sick? Will he catch something else from the waiting room? I often feel foolish for taking him in and then she says, "it's a virus/cold" and we just need to wait it out.

So the remainder of the morning/early afternoon is spent having the handyman fix the stuff, going to the grocery store with sick little boy (who actually does quite weil - so well that I consider cancelling his Dr.'s appointment), exchanging phone calls with the relator, prepping lunch for little boy and myself (he hardly eats anything - maybe the Dr's visit is a good idea after all??) and chopping all the fruit for the Sangria and letting it marinate in some liquors. I put little boy down for a 'rest' also, but he just plays the whole time.

We leave for the Dr'.s office and on the way there (a 15 min. car trip) little boy falls asleep! Once we're inside the office he's awake again and watching the fish in the fish tank. The diagnosis?? Ear infection. Pink medicine prescription is issued, he picks out a toy and we're on our way to the pharmacy. I get to the counter and the gal informs me that it will be over 1 hour before the prescription is ready. So, we trek back home and I try to get some dinner into the little guy since he'll be going to bed in a matter of a few hours since he had no nap.

The rest is boring details (like this wasn't boring so far!!), but I did remember to wear some green for St. Patrick's day, and ate a Shamrock -shaped cookie after dinner.

I had a point to sharing all this, but I completely forgot what it is.